Danny's Space

I have ignored this booting problem for a long time. It shows two lines when booting Ubuntu. Error: Invalid Environment block. Cannot find command hwmatch. This affected upgrades to grub-common and three other packages. I found a solution in the Ubuntu help forum and followed their instructions.  https://askubuntu.com/questions/191852/error-invalid-environment-block-press-any-key-to-continue I didn't want to mess with grub because the boot continues, no-biggie, but when upgrades of certain packages are failing I had to find a better solution. As I understand it, I have to replace a file in /boot/grub called grubenv, create a new one which contains default=0. Restart the computer. No more messages during boot.  I then did an apt-get update and upgrade. No problem there too. 

Property tax rate in the Philippines is usually 1% in the provinces and 2% of the assessed value in the big city. I'm looking at you Metro Manila. I paid my brother's property tax today. It hasn't been paid since 2016 when we last paid it at Montalban. The assessed value of the property increases year after year. You can't stop that, especially as the town progresses into a city. My brother's real property does not have improvements. So it is just a matter of knowing the lot measurement in square meters.  I also pay "our" lot where we live, my mother and I. Unlike Lino's lot ours have improvements in the form of two houses. The old family house sits infront. It's the first thing you see from the road. It is now being rented out to commercial tenants and residents. Mom and I live behind the property in a newer but smaller house. That's all we need now. Compared to my brother's property, this is bigger and has improvements. The location of th...

The long wait is over I think. People are feeling more secure to ride public transportation. I see people entering restaurants. The Philippines is vaccinating 12 years and older (with parental permission). Slowly we are going back to our jobs because we are needed. I found Robert bringing his grand daughter's dog to the vet. We were still wearing our masks, but the thing is, we are worrying about our pets' health now.      My computer gave me a scare when it notified me about a failing hard drive in my zfs pool. I checked my Disk application to verify and the OS is not detecting one particular hard drive. I don't believe that the drive is failing. So I opened the box and checked the SATA cables. I have a few spares and I replaced the cables instead. I reboot the desktop and opened the disk application. This time the hard drive is detected. I gave the "zpool scrub" command to clean detected errors. I reboot once again. I really don't have any problems except ...